The President's Week

At his Friday press conference, Franklin Roosevelt did not chain-smoke, as usual; in fact, he did not smoke at all. His voice had a hoarse, stopped-up quality, indicating a head cold. Well knowing the acute national interest in Mr. Roosevelt's health, the White House promptly announced that the President's ailment was no more than a slight In Boston, the President's personal physician, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, said: "He was hit by the flu, and hard hit when he was sick recently, but he's right back in shape." Last week the President took things easy. Main news was his acceptance of the resignation of Donald Nelson as WPBoss, moved Acting Chairman Julius A. ("Cap") Krug into the top post. Don Nelson, just back from China (TIME, Oct. 2), will stay in the official family in an as-yet-undefined job as the President's roving ambassador on postwar foreign trade. (In Chungking, Chinese smiled, talked of renaming their guest mansion "The House of Exile." The last three U.S. bigwig visitors have made a political fadeout : Wendell Willkie, Henry Wallace, and now Nelson.)

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